Item 25 - Letter from Edwin Montagu to Venetia Stanley

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MONT II/B/1/25

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Letter from Edwin Montagu to Venetia Stanley

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  • 12 Dec. 1911 (Creation)

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India Office, London.—Is looking forward to visiting Alderley. Is bored by to-day’s meetings with newspapermen and bored of this [parliamentary] session. It was fun to see her on the train the other day. His party did not have a very good weekend.

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      TRANSCRIPT:

      India Office, Whitehall, S.W.

        1. 1911.

      My dear Miss Stanley

      I have had it on my conscience that I have not written an answer to two letters of yours {1}. I do so now but only a line to thank you for them and to say how I enjoyed them and wanted them.

      I am looking forward heaps to coming to Alderley and will come as soon as I can.

      I should enjoy the tenants dance much but the other dance is not likely to be much the better for my lugubrious dancing presence.

      Geewiz I am bored of this day. I’ve had to see all sorts of newspaper men. I liked the Daily Mail most because he was just like the paper and horrible.

      I also am bored of this session.

      It was fun to see you the other day in the train. We did not have a very good weekend—it would have been bad if it were not for Geoffrey—whom I love.

      If you want to add to all my obligations you will forgive this scrappy letter and write to me anything!

      Yrs
      Edwin S. Montagu

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      {1} These letters have not been identified. It is possible that they have not survived.

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